What if walking could change the way you see your entire life? Beloved author Sean Dietrich returns to the podcast to talk about his new memoir, I Would Walk 500 Miles, chronicling the month he and his wife, Jamie, spent walking the Camino de Santiago across Spain. What begins as a physical pilgrimage through mountains, mud, ancient villages, and crowded hostels becomes something far deeper like a journey into identity, faith, suffering, community, and what it means to discover who you really are.
Sean shares why hours of walking can create an unexpected kind of clarity, what he learned from carrying nearly everything he needed on his back, and how strangers along the Camino became part of his story. He also opens up about his difficult childhood, losing his father at a young age, spending decades feeling as though he hadn't quite found himself, and the realization that perhaps we are far more loved - and far more than the labels and experiences that have defined us - than we realize.
This conversation moves effortlessly from hilarious stories about tutus, potatoes, peanut butter, and life-changing Spanish cheesecake to profound reflections on God, healing, play, suffering, simplicity, and the strange beauty of being a pilgrim. Ultimately, Sean discovered that the Camino isn't only a trail in Spain: we're all walking one. And sometimes stripping life down to its simplest elements - walking, eating, talking, laughing, and being with other people - helps us finally notice what has mattered all along.
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